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Get the folder Size & Date
I am working on a PHP (Yii2) extension that uses DirectoryInterface and we can configure multiple adapters for that interface and DropboxAdapter is one of them i am working on.
I need to get the size of the folder using the API , i was looking into the Dropbox API Explorer and couldnt find any thing relative to the folder size. The `get_metadata()` does not have the size property in it for folders but files only. Same goes for the folder Modified or creation date.
Is it only me who cant find it or it does not exist at all which will be ODD to know.
The Dropbox API doesn't return the total size or created/modified date for folders, but I'll pass this along as a feature request. I can't promise if or when that might be implemented though.
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- Greg-DB
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The Dropbox API doesn't return the total size or created/modified date for folders, but I'll pass this along as a feature request. I can't promise if or when that might be implemented though.
Well, that is odd/shame for a filehosting service API to not return the folder size/modified date. Also i am not sure if the request you will forward will be accepted as this feature request has been in the queue for more than 6 Years now , see here https://github.com/BenExile/Dropbox/issues/61
So currently we are left with iterating the files inside the folder and calculating their size to show the folder size as far as i can think of a solution.
And to get the modified date i have to do the same process on the files and sort them by date to find the modified date of the folder.
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